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Momodou
Denmark
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 Posted - 11 Feb 2008 : 19:07:38
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Almamy Ceesay Still Fighting for Justice
It is an old adage that Justice delayed is justice denied. This is apt to sum up Almamy Ceesay’s case. Readers would recall that Almamy Ceesay had been an employee of the Medical and Health Department from 1965 up to the time he was forced to retire 11 years ago. He rose to the rank of Chief Orderly before his retirement. According to Almamy, he was forced to leave two years before he was due for retirement under the pretext that he was over 55 years. Almamy came to Foroyaa when he discovered that he had received part payment as gratuity and refused to receive the other part until satisfactory explanation is given on how it was possible to give him part payment. As Almamy pursued the health authorities to get an explanation, his file was said to be lost. This made him more suspicious. He lodged a complaint at the Office of the Ombudsman demanding investigation into the disappearance of his file, the provision of a proper explanation of his employment status and the source of the confusion which gave rise to part payment of his gratuity, proper computation of his gratuity and monthly pension allowance, compensation for forced retirement two years before his attainment of retirement age, computation and payment of his contribution to WOPS and the payment cost for losses in going up and down for 11 years to pursue his rights.
Since the office of Ombudsman could not address all his concerns, especially the missing file, which may contain the reasons why there was part payment of his gratuity, Almamy decided to go to court since his entire petitions to the president proved fruitless. Unfortunately, for Almamy the case proceeded slowly in court and finally grounded to a halt when his lawyer Mai Fatty became involved in an accident.
Almamy is waiting for the state to assume its responsibility to take care of its pensioners. There is no human misery that Almamy, the Chief Orderly, had not handled for patients.
Now that he should be rewarded for his life long service, those in authority seem to be paying deaf ears to the injustice perpetrated against him.
Justice needs to be done and should be seen to be done. Almamy will write a letter to the president again for his intervention, since the records with his lawyer cannot be retrieved at the moment. We will wait and see what will happen.
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issues
Issue No. 18/2007, 11 – 12 February 2008
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